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Maury Island Northwest Glacier's Pier Proposal Starting Point for over 1000 Barges per year ? Page address www.thirdrunway.homestead.com/maury.htm Click here for links to groups like Preserve Our Islands trying to keep Puget Sound safe for tourism and fishing as well keep drinking water safe. |
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Why stop pier improvements that are really for mining/barging orders of magnitude more than the past ? - Marine safety including avoiding marine traffic delays or collisions especially with Tacoma bound oil tankers - Avoid inevitable marine contamination accidents (almost 3000 barge trips per year is begging for accidents) - Prevent inevitable drinking water contamination - periodic shortages predicted even for Puget Sound - Cost prohibitive to create a toxic berm that won't ever contaminate soil or sound in the expected BIG quake - Preserve eel grass, salmon, and orcas for tourism and fishing |
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Contaminated Soil - If it's not the Airport's contaminated soil, the Duwamish soil brought in before it was declared a Superfund site, it's ASARCO contminated soils www.thirdrunway.homestead.com/asarco.html =================================================== The DOE published another Tacoma Smelter Plume report on the web April 4, 2002. It covers mainland King County contamination data. It includes unsafe soil contamination levels in Burien, Normandy Park, Des Moines, etc. Site 62 on Figure 1 is near the Federal Detention Center just south of Sea-Tac airport and near the proposed borrow sites (fill for 3rd runway) http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/tcp/sites/tacoma_smelter/executive_sum mary_020404/Fig1_TSP_Location_Cd.jpg Figure 2, shows the arsenic to be at 48 ppm, which exceeds the state's clean up level of 20 ppm at the Federal Detention Center (circle above the word Des Moines on map to left of Angle Lake) http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/tcp/sites/tacoma_smelter/executive_sum mary_020404/Fig2_ArsenicMax.jpg Maximum Lead concentrations map - 250 ppm is WA's toxic clean up level ======================================================= Not only are their issues with proposed sources of fill at the airport being contaminated, so are other possible sources such as Maury Island. Preserve Our Islands http://www.preserveourislands.org/ Below link does not work but thier site is being worked on Map of Maury Island mining location http://www.ohmert.com/thepit/stoppit.htm ==================================================== Where will the fill com from for the 3rd runway come from? How many aquifers are endangered? Will it come by double haul truck or barges or both? How contaminated will it be? Thanks to Washington Legislature overuling thier own pollution experts, it can be very toxic. See Table |
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